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TJI Friday

Welcome back my friends, to Castle Rackula. I know a laid a heavy trip on you last week with my long-winded discourse on the ancient Indo-European roots of modern rape-revenge flicks, but since the Last House on the Left remake still isn’t out, this week I’m turning once again to Friday the 13th, a subject on which I always have something to say.

The reboot has been on my mind again this week as I perused the new photos of Willa Ford and Julianna Guill online and noticed that there’s yet another Friday the 13th (the day, not the movie) coming up in a few weeks, which I haven’t decided yet how to acknowledge.

According to movie industry blog Risky Business, New Line and Platinum Dunes are moving forward on a sequel to the Friday the 13th reboot, which will also be scripted by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift and could be out by the second half of next year.

I have already gotten over my earlier discomfort with bringing in a hockey-masked Jason Voorhees into a movie called Friday the 13th, but I’ve made my peace with that.

Reportedly, Shannon and Swift, who looked to the first four movies for inspiration, are going off on their own at this point, (perhaps wisely) disregarding the Tommy Jarvis story arc that picked up in A New Beginning and completely avoiding any telekinetic teenagers or forays into New York City.

Read more after the bite.